Kashchenism
Kashchenism is a specific style of conversation in forums and blogs used on Russian FidoNet and Internet. Its main feature is provocativeness and mockery while being formally polite. Historically, Kashchenist style uses many words and idioms of Jewish origin; in conversations, Kashchenists often pretend to be Jews, in order to troll antisemites while also causing others to make excuses to prove that they are not antisemites. Kashchenist style also typically uses medical terms, especially from psychiatry; this is because Kashchenists consider themselves jocularly as "network psychiatrists", and imitate either medical staff or, conversely, patients in a mental hospital. The word "Kashchenism" also denotes a philosophy of people who use Kashchenist style in electronic conversations.
Etymology
The word Kashchenism comes from the name of the Kashchenko psychiatric hospital. The hospital was named after the prominent Russian psychiatrist Pyotr Kashchenko. Kashchenists consider him to be their patron saint.Origin
Kashchenism originated as a FidoNet echo conference SU.KASCHENKO.LOCAL created by Vladimir "MedBrat" Timofeev in 1998.In the first half of the 2000s, SKL slowly became deserted, and in 2005 MedBrat led residual Kashchenists away from SKL to the Internet forum kaschenko.ru.
Ideology and philosophy
The basics of an ideology of Kashchenism are laid out in a text called "Kashchenesis".Also, there is a digest of the Kashchenist ideology formulated in three phrases, a kind of Kashchenists motto; the phrases are:
- Rigorous observance of mutually exclusive points.
- Brutal politrecal correctness., half a litre , and политкорректность
- Total schizophasia.
- Неукоснительное соблюдение взаимоисключающих параграфов.
- Брутальная поллитркорректность.
- Тотальная шизофазия.